The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
This is more of an environment/activity shot, so I cropped to include more of the trees. I think the woodpecker is making a nest-at times he had half his body inside. I’ll keep an eye out and hope for some youngsters this spring. Very foggy day, taken shortly before the Pileated post from yesterday. I did dehaze both images-maybe not enough on the pileated.
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Any thoughts appreciated.
Technical Details
Canon R5; 100-500 at 500 mm; 1/1000 at f7.1, +2 1/3 EV; ISO 2000
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Looks like a well used hole, Allan, so it might be spring cleaning. That’s a promising stand of snags to keep an eye on. This is quite well done and the fog makes foe a really mellow background.
Id like to suggest an even closer crop. Maybe its because I’m viewing on a fairly small mobile phone screen but I had to zoom quite deeply to see an eye and a beak. I’d suggest cropping in so that just V formed main trunk and the limb intersecting it, and of course the bird, are visible. Something like this maybe?
I really like the way you have cropped this image and created an ‘environmental/activity’ image. You tell a very clear story. (I’ve made a note to myself to try this with some of my images). Also, I like the simplicity in the image. My very minor suggestion would be to remove the small stick/branch in the lower right.
